Jim Marrs - PSI Spies - Amazon S3

Sciences Cutting Edge 85I was one of the lucky people. I had been in the reservesand went to Officers Candidate School while Iwas still in college. I was slated to get my commissionin 1958. But in the summer of 1957, Sputnik went upand Congress passed a law that anyone in a technicalfield who was slated to go on active duty could remainin graduate school. So I went to a year and a half ofgraduate school and got my Lieutenant Junior Gradeby the time I went on active duty. In three years, I wentto Lieutenant.Puthoff said he spent his military service working in a researchlaboratory for the National Security Agency (NSA), agovernment agency he had never heard of before going toactive duty. It may have been here that Puthoff made the militarycontacts he was to successfully utilize in later years duringhis psychic research.After leaving the military, Puthoff earned his Ph.D. degreein electrical engineering and physics from Stanford University.“I worked on lasers and quantum electronics and otherthings,” he said, “a very standard sort of engineering andphysics background.”Then one day, Puthoff was reading the popular book PsychicDiscoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, when he read about the“Backster Effect,” the ability of plants to communicate andmake a polygraph machine register their galvanic changes.He said:It occurred to me that an interesting experiment todo would be to take some algae cultures, separatethem by several miles, and then send out a laser signalto one culture to see if the sister culture responded before